
Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark
The Archaeology of the Transition to Agriculture in Northern Europe
- 304 pages
- English
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Seeking the First Farmers in Western Sjælland, Denmark
The Archaeology of the Transition to Agriculture in Northern Europe
About this book
This volume summarizes 30 years of fieldwork in Denmark, some of the evidence for the spread of agriculture and the Neolithic into Scandinavia and some opinions about the origins of agriculture. It is intended to be both academic and personal and to describe the actual process of research, because most projects involve elements of both. There is an introduction to each chapter that relates some of the more personal aspects of the research and the bulk of each chapter will be a more technical scientific report on our investigations. Each chapter will deal with one of the components of the project - survey, testing and excavations. We excavated eight sites from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic that are discussed in this volume. The concluding chapter summarizes our research in the area and proffers opinions on a variety of archaeological subjects, with visits to climate change, seasonality and sedentism, hunter-gatherer complexity, aDNA, inequality and the origins and spread of agriculture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword At the end of the road
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Setting the table – an introduction
- Chapter 2 Archaeological survey
- Chapter 3 Site testing
- Chapter 4 Smakkerup Huse
- Chapter 5 Excavations at Trustrup
- Chapter 6 Dragsholm and Bøgebjerg
- Chapter 7 Fårevejle Kro
- Chapter 8 Asnæs Havnemark
- Chapter 9 Conclusions
- Bibliography